Over the years, the terms Magic, Golden, Triangle, Augments, Directory, Domains and Active have given the administrators of Mac OS X environments fits. So when you think about using Active Directory to manage iOS devices through the Profile Manager service, built into Lion Server, you may think that it’s a complicated thing to piece together. You may remember those days when you had to manually craft service principals because xgrid wouldn’t play nice with Acive Directory, or you might think of twisting augmented records to support CalDAV. But you’re gonna’ have to forget all that, ’cause getting Profile Manager to talk to Active Directory is one of the easiest things…
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Setting up a Dual Directory with Snow Leopard Server
In Snow Leopard Server it seems that someone at Apple figured out that a bunch of people were building these weird triangle, or dual directory, thingies. So, if you bind a Mac OS X Server to Active Directory and then open Server Admin and then click on Open Directory you’ll see a button to Kerberize Services. Once you’ve Kerberized the services, if you click on the Change… button for Role you’ll see a different option than you normally see when setting an Open Directory Master. In the Choose Directory Role screen you’ll see a new screen that tells you that you’re connected to another directory. It will then ask if…
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Triangle vs. Dual Directory?
It’s just a terminology thing… 😉